Bradley Listed as Top Salary-Boosting School

05/04/2015 4:54 PM

Where you go to school can have a huge effect on your salary. The Brookings Institution says Bradley University is #19 on the “Top Salary-Boosting Colleges” list.

Brookings estimated how much a college directly contributed to alumni salaries by predicting what their earnings would be based on a college’s institutional, student and locational characteristics, and comparing that to what alumni were actually making 10 years after graduating.

These characteristics on which predicted salary are based include whether a college was in a big city with lots of job opportunities or a smaller town with fewer options and whether a school was a community college or research university. It also accounted for information based on student backgrounds, such as age, race, ethnicity, family income and academic preparation.

See full list here: http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/29/pf/college/college-biggest-salary-boost/index.html